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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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